Like the YMCA, the city also needs more lifeguards. It has hired about 325 towards the 400 positions it needs to fill in order to open all 60 pools this summer. A schedule is expected mid-June.
A month after a Jim Thorpe Borough Council decision to leave management of the Asa Packer Mansion in the hands of the Jim Thorpe Lions Club led to a mass tour guide resignation, the popular attraction.
The historic Asa Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe is set to usher in a new era without the veteran guides who have shared its stories for the last several decades.
On the day after the town’s borough coun.